Daredevil Followers Are Satisfied This Born Once more Easter Egg Might Alter a Main Twist

The opening two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again set the stage for an additional explosive tussle between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk—however earlier than we even acquired to all that, the brand new Marvel streaming present kicked off with one hell of an opening.

“Heaven’s Half Hour” begins with a shocking attack by none aside from Bullseye, who fatally shoots Foggy Nelson as he and Karen Web page are leaving Josie’s Bar, having slaughtered a bunch of different bystanders whereas preventing Daredevil and seemingly assassinating one among Foggy’s shoppers. It’s the inciting incident of the entire collection, one which sees Matt surrender being Daredevil for over a yr, and for Karen to depart him and New York alike for a lifetime of her personal in San Francisco.

But it surely’s additionally one which followers at the moment are immediately scrambling to discover a manner out of… they usually assume that will have discovered it within the deal with of Matt, Foggy, and Karen’s regulation agency.

Nelson, Murdock, and Web page’s Handle Would possibly Be a Comics Clue

Established formally on the very finish of the Netflix Daredevil collection, we briefly see Nelson, Murdock, and Web page’s deal with within the opening episode of Born Once more: whereas we don’t see the road itself, we do see it’s housed at quantity 468. As of writing, throughout eight volumes between 1964 and 2025 there have been 680 problems with Daredevil. Though Marvel has reset the counter on points a number of instances over the course of these volumes, when Daredevil was going to go 500 points in 2009 the corporate reverted to legacy subject numbering.

It’s a pattern that returned once more, curiously, beginning in November 2017 with Daredevil #595—the start of the “Mayor Fisk” arc by Charles Soule, Stefano Landini, Matt Milla, and Clayton Cowles that Born Once more is at the moment adapting in its first season. Anyway, what does all that quantity crunching need to do with it? Effectively, it implies that Daredevil #468 (by Ed Brubaker, David Aja, Frank D’Armata, and Cory Petit) was revealed in August 2006 as Daredevil #88, telling an interstitial story between arcs titled “The Secret Lifetime of Foggy Nelson.”

A narrative about how Foggy had really escaped being murdered, and was now in witness safety.

How Did Foggy Cheat Demise within the Comics?

“The Secret Lifetime of Foggy Nelson” comes at a turning level in a significant storyline in Daredevil. In the course of the occasions of the prior arc, “The Satan in Cell Block D,” Matt Murdock had been placed on trial by the FBI, accused of a collection of crimes that linked him to being the alter ego of the vigilante Daredevil. Via an array of surreptitious, underhanded offers, Matt is shipped to Ryker’s Island (the title used for the precise Riker’s Island in Marvel Comics continuity) to be detained as a possible flight threat, in a long-winded try to have Matt both show that he’s Daredevil in an try to survive, or have him killed by the opposite inmates, which finally embrace the Kingpin, additionally arrested for his many crimes within the course of..

With Foggy performing as protection within the case, throughout a go to he makes to Matt at Ryker’s he’s led to an encounter with some inmates by a corrupt guard, alongside personal investigator Dakota North, the place Foggy is in the end stabbed within the intestine. Whereas the reader and Matt alike are result in imagine that Foggy has certainly been killed for just a few points, Daredevil #468 revealed that, whereas on the working desk, Foggy made a take care of the FBI to enter witness safety as “Everett Williams,” in an try to maintain him protected whereas they investigated his tried homicide.

Via a posh variety of loops, Matt finally manages to get out of jail throughout a riot with the assistance of the Punisher, is successfully exonerated within the course of because of corroboration from Ryker’s warden and public proof of Daredevil remaining in operation whereas Matt was held with out bail (in really Danny Rand, the Iron Fist, sporting one among Matt’s spare costumes, and inadvertently employed by a lawyer with connections to Foggy’s demise). He then flees to Europe to attempt to observe down connections to Foggy’s killer.

After even extra advanced shenanigans, Matt finally uncovers that it was Vanessa Fisk—dying of a terminal sickness and looking for revenge on each Murdock and her husband alike—that was behind the faking of Foggy’s demise, providing him one last deal. In change for getting Fisk exonerated, she’s going to destroy proof of Matt’s operations throughout Europe as Daredevil, additional strengthening his protection towards the FBI prices. Though he initially refuses, Vanessa destroys the images anyway, dying days after Matt returns to the U.S. with the costs towards him dropped, and discovering for himself that Foggy was alive all alongside, establishing a brand new regulation agency collectively as soon as extra with Foggy’s assistant Becky Blake as their associate.

Might Foggy Have Actually Survived in Daredevil: Born Once more?

For as good a possibility as this specific Easter egg may play out as, there’s a fairly important distinction in the best way “The Satan in Cell Block D” and “Heaven’s Half Hour” portrayed Foggy’s deaths: the latter is far more express in presenting that Foggy dies from his wounds on the scene. Within the comics, the second of Foggy’s “demise” is far more imprecise. On the finish of the difficulty he’s attacked, Daredevil #82 (legacy subject #462), Matt can nonetheless hear Foggy’s heartbeat together with his extrasensory talents, and though the next subject then cuts to his funeral, we finally study in passing dialogue from Dakota that Foggy had appeared to stabilize within the ambulance that recovered him from Ryker’s. There’s sufficient vagueness in the way it’s framed for the shock reveal six points down the road to nonetheless come collectively.

Born Once more leaves very little room for vagueness in its personal rendition of Foggy’s demise. Each Karen, by Foggy’s aspect, and Matt, utilizing his senses from up on the rooftops above, expertise the second Foggy bleeds out, and though we don’t see a lot of the medical response to the scene within the aftermath, it definitely doesn’t appear like there’s any makes an attempt to stabilize him. Past the 468 quantity as a possible allusion to the comics, Born Once more appears to be fairly adamant that Foggy is absolutely gone.

That will change, after all, because the season progresses. It’s not like there haven’t been supernatural methods to cheat demise in both Daredevil‘s historical past on Netflix or within the MCU because it exists now, that Born Once more is a part of. There are many ways in which even a extremely sure demise could possibly be undone, even when doesn’t play out as precisely because the switcheroo in “The Secret Lifetime of Foggy Nelson” did. For now although, we don’t actually have lots of proof pointing to a manner out for poor Foggy within the MCU, past a quantity and a fleeting dream.

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